Pushed Quotes

“Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“I am pushed by those who believe in me, but motivated by those who don't.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“you get to a point when you just don’t want to be pushed anymore. pushed to pretend you’re okay with condescending behavior and disrespectful attitudes. pushed to ignore the determined yearnings of your clearest truth. pushed to engage in conversations and situations that in no way serve your state of peace. pushed to act a bogus part and clap for those who are acting theirs. pushed to be quiet and to stay small. pushed to exist rather than live. you get to a point when it’s all too much, too exhausting, too false. something must change. then you realize that the changes you crave have always been within your power to create. you realize that no one has the might to push you into anything when you are unwilling to be pushed. you realize that you, more effectively than any outside influence, have been your biggest pusher all along. so you stop—pushing and pretending and acting and shrinking. you stop it all, because you can. and you don’t waste too much time regretting that you didn’t do it sooner. you’re suddenly much too busy living your life for such silly regrets.”
― Scott Stabile

“Everyone has a breaking point.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“Their kind never get asked to turn their intellects on full blast.

But every now and then one of them gets pushed too far, and then we all find out what they can really do. The crime scene ‘bots pick up a lot of body parts when that’s over.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“The 2020 USA election was akin to watching President Trump being pushed off a cliff in slow motion.”
― Steven Magee